The Akwa Ibom State Police Command has introduced that 563 suspects have been apprehended, with 74 victims of human trafficking rescued up to now throughout the state in 2025.
This was disclosed because the Command reviewed the safety scenario within the outgoing 12 months and outlined its operational focus for 2026.
Talking throughout an end-of-year press convention with journalists at Ikot Akpanabia, Uyo, the state capital, Commissioner of Police within the state, CP Baba Azare, said that the safety scenario within the State remained typically peaceable, calm, and secure all year long.
CP Azare famous that the feat was achieved by way of intelligence-led policing, proactive patrols, strategic deployments, group cooperation, and efficient inter-agency collaboration.
He disclosed that the Command recorded important operational successes through the 12 months, together with the arrest of suspects concerned in armed theft, cultism, kidnapping, violent crimes, and different prison actions.
Azare added that firearms, ammunition, stolen automobiles, and different harmful displays have been additionally recovered, whereas a number of prison hideouts and recognized black spots throughout the state have been dismantled in 2025.
The CP said that the Command would preserve enough safety protection for political, social, non secular, and {economic} actions through the festive season throughout the State.
On public security, the Commissioner reiterated the Command’s stance towards jungle justice, illegal gatherings, and actions that would breach public peace.
He additionally confirmed compliance with the state authorities’s Govt Order, which restricts masquerade actions to authorized places, requires police permission, and mandates safety protection. This measure is claimed to have considerably lowered violence and dysfunction.
The Commissioner additionally expressed concern over the rising unfold of pretend information, notably on social media, revealing that arrests have been made in reference to the fabrication and circulation of false info able to inflicting panic and rigidity, warning that offenders would proceed to face the complete weight of the legislation.
The CP emphasised group policing as a core technique of the Command, disclosing that sustained engagement with conventional rulers, youth and girls’s {groups}, non secular leaders, market associations, transport unions, college directors, and different stakeholders throughout the State would proceed to outline the policing technique for sustainable peace.
He listed important achievements through the outgoing 12 months to incorporate restoration of 179 assorted arms, restoration of 323 several types of ammunition, restoration of 100 items of reside cartridges and arrest of 563 suspects for numerous crimes, who have been charged in courts.
The Command, in line with CP Azare, additionally recorded 14 stolen automobiles, which had been launched to their house owners, the rescue of 74 human trafficking victims, in addition to the rescue of 10 kidnap victims, with convictions of 33 offenders, amongst others.
Trying ahead to 2026, CP Azare outlined the Command’s key priorities, which embrace strengthening intelligence-led policing and crime prevention methods, in addition to an unrestrained clampdown on violent crimes, cultism, armed theft, and kidnapping.
He pressured that the Police would additionally deepen group policing and public belief, fight cybercrime and the unfold of pretend information, improve professionalism, self-discipline, and respect for human rights, enhance deployment methods and use of contemporary policing instruments, in addition to strengthen collaboration with sister safety companies.
He assured residents that enough safety measures have been put in place for the festive season and past, with intensified patrols, stop-and-search operations, and strategic deployments throughout all 31 native authorities areas.
